INVENTORY #142638
Punishment of one of ye King of Whidahs Wives & her Gallant, from Marchais
CHILD, G., Sculpt.
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Single page from "The Universal Traveller: Or, A Compleat Description Of the several Nations of the World" by Mr. Salmon, printed for Richard Baldwin, London, 1759. The Kingdom of Whydah, sometimes written Hueda, was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in the boundaries of the modern nation of Benin. Man is being roasted alive, while the woman waits her turn.
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- Publisher: n/a
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1759
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Near fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
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One-sided 23 x 38 cm page with a b&w copperplate engravings. Plate 171, No. 98, Vol. 2. p. 374. One edge of print a bit discoloured.